In the history of the world, revenge was allowed for a long time before modern legal system. It was justified as a means of realizing justice. Ancient law also allowed public revenge based upon the principle of retributive justice. But revenge was illegalized by modern law with the advent of modern era. With the illegimitization of public revenge, a new genre of detective novel also makes private revenge illegal in its narrative. A revenger’s voice was not allowed, and it was considered as violent, barbarous in a detective novel. In A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four, a revenger’s voice is blocked by the detective’s one. In A Study in Scarlet, revenger’s voice is heard through the chasm between poetic justice and legal justice. Even though the revenger’s voice attracts many readers and gains their sympathies, a detective intervenes and ultimately blocks the revenger’s voice. In The Sign of Four, a revenger is portrayed as a disgusting and repulsive criminal. and his motives for murder have no empathic appeal to the readers. At the end of these two novels, a detective captures a revenger and makes him go to prison. In Conan Doyle’s detective novels, a detective becomes a new hero who realize both poetic and judicial justice while a revenger becomes a criminal who violates the law and order of society.
한국중앙영어영문학회 [The Jungang English Language And Literature Association Of Korea]
설립연도
1968
분야
인문학>영어와문학
소개
본 학회는 영미어문학의 학술연구와 이에 부합하는 아래의 사업을 기획 수행하며,
또한 회원 상호간의 친목을 도모함을 목적으로 한다.
1. 학회지 발간
2. 연구 발표회, 강연회, 공동연구
3. 영미어문학 관련 도서출판
4. 영미어문학 관계 도서 및 자료의 모집 및 비치
5. 기타 본회의 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]